this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Don’t You Know Who I Am?

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[–] half 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this a screenshot of a Reddit post of a screenshot of a Twitter thread about people who want you to know they're involved in literature? I'm just checking. You guys see the same thing, right? This isn't some kind of software bug or dimensional rift?

[–] SomeoneElse 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fits right in with the “screenshots are not memes” memes flooding lemmy today.

[–] half 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks to me like some karma farmers figured out the Lemmy API

[–] SomeoneElse 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I posted it but I don’t know what lemmy api is, and there’s no karma here. I’m just trying to get this community going and rn stealing post from Reddit is the easiest way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I smiled. Thank you for posting.

[–] weirdwallace75 0 points 1 year ago

I Post Memes Not Ourbourouses by Pedantic! At The Sublemmy

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well tbh Celeste is a writer not a reader.

[–] TheAndrewBrown 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s honestly pretty impressive she writes best selling books with her eyes closed and without ever proofreading them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not the author’s job to proofread. Editors do that.

[–] TheAndrewBrown 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well sure but authors do still proofread, they don’t just hammer out a first draft and send that to their editor without reading it. And I was talking more about proofreading for story consistency, not spelling and grammar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they don’t just hammer out a first draft and send that to their editor without reading it

Man, I wish you were right. I find German books are particularly bad, where not even the editor will care to find the obvious spelling and grammar mistakes.

[–] TheAndrewBrown 3 points 1 year ago

Fair, I guess I should say authors with some self-respect will proofread their own work lol

[–] locococoa9613 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciate her username. It was my first question.

[–] SomeoneElse 3 points 1 year ago
[–] NewEnglandRedshirt 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having taken two round-trips by air recently, I can honestly say that my .epub reader got quite the workout!

[–] SomeoneElse 4 points 1 year ago

I made a comment on a post about life before smartphones that I can remember throwing a strop as a child because my parents would only let me take 7 hardback library books on a two week holiday. The struggle was real!

[–] FatTony -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I don't think any of that happened though.